This is when someone has a thing for dead bodies, namely necrophilia. Do you really need the details?

Note that while Mummies at the Dinner Table may or may not involve necrophiliac behavior, in Mummies at the Dinner Table the character is attracted to a corpse because it was their beloved while alive and they just can't let go. In this trope, the character is attracted to a corpse because it is a corpse. Usually, the character finds the corpse Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Examples:

Angel Sanctuary has a thankfully milder version of this: after she's dead, Kira holds Alexiel up and kisses her corpse passionately.

In Full Metal Panic!, in the novels it's outright stated that this was one of Gauron's sick fantasies of what he would do with Sousuke. The idea of killing Sousuke apparently doesn't seem to discourage his idea that they'll still be able to have a sex life. As a hardened soldier, Sousuke is rarely grossed out by things, but even this was too much for him.

Also, the male assassin after Kaname had been ordered by Gauron to "shoot her to death, disgrace the body, take a picture and send it to Hong Kong."

There's also Gates. He likes to do weird things with people's corpses. Most notably with Yu Lan's. It's also implied that he might have done perverted stuff to it.

Lussuria from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!. In his own words, his favorite bodies are the "cold, slowly decomposing, unmoving ones" (he then licks his lips). And he spends much of his time eyeing up a shirtless Ryohei, saying that his body is "pretty nice" and going on about how much he wants to "take Ryohei home with him" shortly after he beats the shit out of him and wants to make Ryohei a part of his 'collection'. Gokudera even calls him a pervert.

Giselle Gewelle from Bleach. After Mayuri enters the fray, we get a few pages of zombie Bambietta pleading for Giselle to give "it" to her.

It's implied Mayuri is this way when he makes certain movements in a forward and back motion by his daughters motionless corpse which revives her.

If the way the Doktor talks about SHE in Hellsing: The Dawn isn't enough for you, look at his expression. Either he loves his work, or he loves her bones.

In the 7th OVA there's a flashback of Seras's childhood in which one of her mother's murderers raped said mother's corpse due to it being "still warm". Right in front of Seras.

There's also Jan Valentine wanting to rape, kill and rape Integra again (and yes, In That Order).

Prince Ludwig in Ludwig Revolution. In the first chapter he is depicted as a necrophiliac and keeps a room full of female corpses in glass coffins, but by the second story he's given up on dead women and starts looking for a live bride.

Also, Julius has no problems with talking to Ludwig's (supposedly) dead body or with making out with it.

In the yaoi manga Under Grand Hotel, the Depraved Bisexual Swordfish warns Sen (whom he's attracted to) that he better make sure he doesn't die while in prison because if he does he'll rape his corpse in full view of everyone.

Elegant Gothic Lolita Ashley of Betrayal Knows My Name plays with this trope in episode 10 when she puts Shusei in a permanent sleep and whispers in his ear "I knew you'd make a beautiful corpse. You're part of my collection now. You'll never wake up again..." while caressing his face and chest.

At one point in Black Cat, Creed, Train's Stalker with a Crush, tells Train that he would at least want to have him by his side even as a dead body rather than let Saya have him.

Played for laughs in the manga Sankarea by Furuya Chihiro, a Nightmare Fetishist who is obsessed with zombie girls. Fortunately for him, he gets a cute one (the title character Sanka Rea) as his new girlfriend. Darin's father plays this disturbingly straight.

As of chapter 20, he admits that he'd fallen for her while she was still alive, and would have been fine with her even if she wasn't a zombie.

The sequel to Tokyo Ghoul has Torso, a Ghoul that earned his alias from his habit of decapitating and dismembering women. He likes to take their torsos home with him, and refers to them as his "lovers". When his home is raided and he's forced to abandon it, he expresses dismay at how lonely he is at night without a cold body to keep him company.

Yuureitou: Marube is rather attached to his dead wife's bones as shown when he kisses it on the mouth and later lays on top of it in a suggestive manner while naked implying he means to have sex with it.

Subverted in Seraph of the End novels when Ferid jokes as he approaches a prostitute's corpse that he finally gets his chance to copulate with a corpse. He sticks his fingers into a prostitute's neck wound which Crowley finds lewd but then he reveals he was just reaching in her neck for a needle which they can use as evidence in their investigation into the murder.

Gangsta: The flashback chapter showing a little tagged girl crying over the beaten and raped corpse of what is most likely her mother. The last panel shows a bunch of hands most likely reaching for her. Thankfully, that's the last we see of it.

Peacemaker Kurogane: Suzu recovers the head of Yoshida (who he had a crush on and who was decapitated during the Ikedaya Incident), has it varnished and carries it around, in a rather affectionate way while talking to it.

Ana Satsujin: Reina finds living people disgusting and tells Kurosu that maybe he's not so bad if he likes sleeping with corpses from when she found him unconscious and stuffed in a car trunk with a body.

Deadman Wonderland: When Minatsuki first revealed her psychopathic personality to Ganta, she proclaimed that she would kill him, cut up his body, and then "cum in [his] formaldehyde".

Comic Books

An X-Statix story revolved around Dead Girl (who can speak to the dead) discovering that the team's official coroner is giving his "guests" the "best treatment possible" (and when the coroner's own daughter commits suicide, it's implied he'll "take good care" of her too). She then uses her powers to raise their ghosts and let themhandle his punishment.

Almost: A Batman villain, Clayface III (the one with the melty powers) is very devoted to Helena. Only thing is that Helena is a mannequin. Still, he regards her with very human feelings. When their relationship sours, he notes (ironically) that "she can't live forever..."

Although in Clayface's case, he's actually convinced that Helena is Killed Off for Real when he accidentally knocks her head off while arguing with her.

In "Cacophony", The Joker explicitly states that he wants Batman sexually. Although, being the Joker, he wants him sexually only after he's dead.

In The Sandman, Dr. Destiny forces a woman to admit that she once, drunkenly, had sex with a corpse at a mortuary. And nothing since then's measured up.

As part of his backstory, Green Lantern villain Black Hand was obsessed with death to the point of necrophilia (though it's never been stated if he goes "all the way" or not).

Occurs in the Tales Of The Unrefined stories "No Rest" and "Evil is Nuts".

One A Nightmare on Elm Street comic by Wildstorm indicates that, while still a mortal serial killer, Freddy Krueger may have molested his victims before and after killing them. Considering Freddy's urban legend status, it's left dubious as to whether or not it's true.

In the origin story of Pfaultz from the Vertigo House Of Secrets, he's seen shagging a young girl's corpse.

Ramba: In "Violent Death", after assassinating her target, Ramba notices his erection is still standing which pleases her and is provoked to have intercourse with the previously dead body.

Fanfiction

Iron Will's Foalcon Necrophilia Sex Rampage involves its eponymous protagonist, Iron Will, murdering and then raping the dead bodies of young foals. He also dresses up in his mother's clothes and pleasures himself. This fic features a gratuitous ammount of torture and gorn. For obvious reasons, NSFW.

At least two of the three seen-onscreen members of the Makara bloodline of Homestuck have been portrayed doing this in fanfic at least once. Gamzee did canonically make out with a severed head, so really it's not surprising.

Hivefled has the Grand Highblood and the Handmaid, after the Handmaid has been dead for sweeps. Also an example of Mummies at the Dinner Table. Condesce complains about the smell.

In the Discworld fic Stuck On You, the zombie Reg Shoe falls in love with a very unsuccessful stripper - who is also a Zombie. The interesting philosophical question is raised, as Reg and Ethyl begin a sort of romance, of: Can it be called necrophilia if both parties are dead? In coming chapters, the author may well raise the subject of Zombie sex.

Perry Farrell (frontman for Jane's Addiction) has sex with real-life wife Casey Niccoli after she OD's in the 1993 vanity project Gift.

Played with in House on Haunted Hill (1999) remake when Famke Janssen's character dies and Peter Gallagher's character later sneaks back to fondle her corpse. It turns out that the two of them are lovers and conspired to fake her death.

The Troma film Cry Uncle features the "hero" having sex with a woman he think is passed out, while his interior monologue berates himself for falling so low. It turns out the woman is actually dead. The film was banned in some countries until very recently.

Pretty much the entire plot of the obscure 1990 British film Living Doll. You almost certainly haven't seen it. Be grateful for small mercies.

In Quills Joaquin Phoenix's character has a dream about sleeping with Kate Winslet's corpse.

In another Japanese movie, EM: Embalming, this is implied. (Please note that until very recently, embalming the dead was an almost unknown practice in Japan, where it's customary for bodies to be cremated, so many Japanese would see something quite creepy about the practice of preserving corpses.)

The Andrew "Dice" Clay film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane had a scene where the body of a pretty girl was seen in a hearse, with the implication that she was going to be the object of necrophilia. It turned out that she was just pretending to be dead.

In the 1967 Luis Buñuel film Belle Du Jour, Catherine Deneuve pretends to be a corpse, lying in an open coffin, for the delectation of one of her clients.

In Richard Burton's legendarily bad 1972 version of Bluebeard, the body of Baron Von Sepper's (Burton) first wife, Greta (Karin Schubert), who had been shot dead in a hunting accident (she was shot in the back by the Baron) is seen laid out in her open coffin, perfectly coiffed and made up and dressed in a slinky, low-cut white satin evening gown, for her funeral. The Baron takes photographs of Greta's body, then kisses the corpse; a Sexy Discretion Shot fading to a scene of the Baron making an abstract version of the photographs for display implies that he had sex with the dead body. At the climax of the movie, Anne (Joey Heatherton) discovers the bodies of all of Bluebeard's murdered wives preserved in a walk-in freezer. The Baron reveals to Anne that he, being impotent, was unable to be aroused by any of his wives and describes this as the motive for his string of murders; left unanswered is the question as to whether his impotence only applied to his wives as living people. By its very nature, in fact (nobleman or high-society gentleman marries a string of beautiful women, murders them, and keeps their bodies around frozen or otherwise preserved), necrophilia is a frequent subtext in the various versions of the Bluebeard legend.

Spoofed in the old Italian film Le Sei Mogli Di Barbablu, starring the famous comedian Toto. Toto's character discovers the bodies of Bluebeard's wives; it turns out all the lovely ladies, including a very young Sophia Loren in one of her first roles, were in suspended animation and are revived.

The 1990 sub-B-Movie horror film Deadmate had necrophilia as its main theme, having as its plot the travails of a beautiful small-town waitress who gets involved with a mortician who turns out to be the leader of a ring that kills women and uses their bodies for sexual pleasures. It was so cheaply produced that only one actual sequence depicting necrophilia was shown, in which a pretty cheerleader is forced off the road while driving, drowned in a pond, and has her dead body sexually used by the ambulance attendants taking it to the mortuary. However, as the heroine observes while spying on the bad guys, their activities seem to have as much or more to do with Frankenstein-style experiments in reanimating dead bodies than with sex.

In the 1985 Paul Bartel/Mary Woronov comedy Mortuary Academy, Bartel's character falls in love with the dead body of a cheerleader who's choked to death on popcorn at a movie.

In the Danish film Nightwatch and the 1997 American remake starring Ewan McGregor, the main character is framed with a false accusation of this.

This is also a theme of the Charlie Sheen thriller Postmortem.

The 1980's horror movie Mortuary also had this as a subtext. The villain kidnaps the heroine and attempts to kill and then embalm her so he can keep her as his necrophiliac lover.

The Canadian film Kissed (based on the Barbara Gowdy story) is also about a woman who is attracted to the dead. In the climax, her boyfriend hangs himself so he can "be with her" forever.

Considering that the central plot of the movie Drop Dead Sexy concerns two small-time crooks stealing the body of a beautiful blonde and holding it for ransom, necrophilia is a major subtext in the film. In one scene, one of the protagonists catches the other in what he thinks (mistakenly) is the act of sex with the blonde's lingerie-clad corpse and has all sorts of sarcastic remarks to make; in another scene, the protagonists visit a coroner (Brad Dourif in a cameo) who is preparing for a romantic evening with the dead body of an attractive woman who has been shot by her husband: the coroner invites one of the protagonists to probe the fatal bullet wound with his finger.

Starkweather has Charlie apparently about to perform sexual acts with the body of a female victim, when Caril Ann catches him. When he tries explaining that he was just posing the body (to make it look like the work of "some sex pervert") and voices his disgust at the thought of doing anything to the corpse, Caril Ann asks him "... then why are you hard down there?"

Dreamaniac: "She fucks men, and then she kills them—not always in that order!"

In Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009), there's a particularly disturbing scene where an ambulance driver describes exactly what he would like to do to some of the "hot" female bodies he has to carry in the back of his van.

Played with in Once Upon a Time in America. Noodles is picked up from a lengthy prison stay by his friend in a hearse. The friend shows off the beautiful dead woman in the hearse's coffin and makes lewd jokes about her. It turns out that the woman is very much alive and has been hired to take care of Noodles.

A Serbian Film has both the protagonist being forced to decapitate the woman he's raping and not stop the assault and at the end a film crew deciding to rape the corpses of the protagonist and his family. Starting with the son. It's disturbing...and apparently made as a protest.

The zombies in Shaun of the Dead may... well, we never know WHAT they are because the only explanation for events in the film is cut off mid sentence. Assuming they're true undead zombies we get one woman on a talk show admitting she's still in love with, and regularly having sex with, her zombie husband.

Maggot from August Underground's Mordum is shown having sex with his sister, spilled intestines, and a dead little girl.

Drive Angry. When Piper puts up too much of a fight for Jonah King's liking after he and his cult kidnapped her, he tries to kill her and decides to defile her corpse afterwards.

In Freddy vs. Jason, Lori finds Freddy having his way with a camp counselor's corpse during Jason's nightmare. Possible hint to him wanting to rape her and foreshadowing of the attempt later in that dream.

Vice Squad includes a scene in which prostitute Princess is paid to have sex with an elderly man laid out in a coffin as if he were dead. It's too freaky for her so she bolts.

In Weekend at Bernie's, things turned really strange when one of Bernie's lovers (Catherine Parks) came to argue with him, and ended up having sex with him. And she claimed it was the best they'd ever had. And he was dead.

Larry: How do you like that? The guy gets laid more dead than I do alive.

In the French movie Mortal Transfer, a psychiatrist who has a habit of falling asleep during his sessions with a beautiful blonde finds himself confronted one day with her body, which has apparently been strangled during one of his maps. He spends the balance of the movie hauling the lovely corpse around and getting into strange situations a laWeekend at Bernie's. At one point, while in a cemetery, he encounters a DJ who's seriously into necrophilia.

The Neon Demon: After Jesse comes to the mansion that Ruby claims to be house-sitting, Ruby tries to initiate sex with her, but is rejected. Upset, Ruby leaves for her second job as a makeup artist for a morgue. There, she pleasures herself with a female corpse while thinking about Jesse.

In the 1944 Boris Karloff movie The Climax, Karloff's character, Dr. Friedrich Hohner, obsessed with a beautiful opera singer, Marcellina (June Vincent), with whom he's been having an affair but who wants to break up with him, strangles her to death. Ten years later, another gorgeous singer (Susanna Foster) whom Hohner has developed an identical obsession with, discovers Marcellina's perfectly-preserved body, which Hohner has kept in a Snow White-like glass-lidded coffin for the past decade. Bonus points for, however delicately, implying even the possibility of necrophilia in a movie - stipulating that it was a B-Movie, which tended to not get quite as much attention from the censors - shot during the heyday of the Hays Code!

Bad Boys II. Drugs are being smuggled inside dead bodies, so the protagonists have to search the bodies in the morgue. One of the corpses is played by the voluptuous Jessica Karr, and Marcus confesses to Mike that he couldn't help but innocently ogle the naked female's stiff chest. Later he's forced to to hide under the sheet next to the well-endowed cadaver:

"What? I ain't doin' nothin'. What am I gonna do with these big-ass fake dead titties?"

In Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead: The "hero" gains the power to animate the dead. At the end he animates the corpse of his dead girlfriend. Cue backseat sex....

Jokes

A joke:

My grandmother has a necrophiliac suitor.

What's he doing?

Waiting.

Another: What's the difference between incest and necrophilia? Incest is relatively boring; necrophilia is dead boring.

A guy who's down on his luck walks into a whorehouse. He says that he's broke and miserable and could really use some cheering up, but he only has $2. The owner takes pity and says that they have a dead hooker upstairs that he can have a go at for his $2. When he finishes up and gets back downstairs, he says "That was great! But there was one problem. Her nose kept running." The owner shrugs and says "Eh, she's probably just full."

"I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac!"

(Person being mocked) used to be into sadomasochistic necrophilic bestiality. But then he realised he was just flogging a dead horse.

Three men and a woman were marooned on a desert island. After one week, the woman felt so guilty about what she had been doing that she committed suicide. After another week, the three men felt so terrible about what they had been doing they buried her. After another week the three men felt so terrible about what they had been doing they dug her back up.

Literature

One of the earliest comes in The Revenger's Tragedy. When Gloriana won't sleep with him, the Duke poisons her, and then rapes her corpse.

Barbara Gowdy's short story, "We Seldom Look Back on Love" focuses on a female necrophilic and her affair with a guy who commits suicide to get her to love him for real.

The maniac Jessie Burlingame encounters in Gerald's Game is actually NOT a figure of her imagination, but a crazy necrophiliac, Raymond Andrew Joubert, who has been digging up body parts and using them for pleasure. Jessie is especially horrified because she offered to have sex with the ghostly intruder: "I would have let him put his cock — the cock he stuck down the rotting throats of dead men — into me if only he would have promised [...] to set me free."

In Firestarter, a main character reads the minds of one of the "Graduate Assistants" who had been experimenting on him in college, and finds that he has killed four people and raped one of the bodies.

In Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby, a necrophiliac EMT gains access to a magical "culling song" that will kill anyone who it is sung to. The EMT goes in a killing spree, murdering models to have sex with them. Also, the narrator unwittingly used the song to kill his wife, then had sex with her thinking she was half asleep.

Based on Jeffrey Dahmer, below, Quentin, the protagonist of the Joyce Carol Oates novel Zombie attempts to make a mindless sex slave by destroying the frontal lobe of his victims. Things do not go well.

One of the ways he two Villain Protagonists in The Empire of the Necromancers take advantage of the undisturbed tombs they find is raising beautiful mummified empresses for their personal service.

Vacharn in Necromancy in Naat is implied to be into this.

The necromancer and his apprentice in The Charnel God raise the dead temporarily for "entertainment".

The Richard Brautigan novel Dreaming Of Babylon features a coroner who admires the bodies of beautiful dead women, though he's insulted when detective C. Card repeatedly implies that he has sex with them.

In some of Dean Koontz's early works (The Vision and The Face of Fear among others), the villains are serial rapists as well as murderers, and the police at the crime-scene wonder if the killer raped the victim before or after they were killed.

Necrophilia figures into Neil Gaiman's short story "Snow. Glass. Apples." although maybe not the way you might expect. The story is a retelling of Snow White in which Snow White is a vampire and the prince is a necrophiliac, so he's drawn to the coldness of her body rather than repulsed by what she is. The 'wicked stepmother' by comparison is a relatively decent person who only ordered her stepdaughter's death because of what she was.

George R.R. Martin's short story "Meathouse Man" is centered around the eponymous Meathouse, a brothel with dead prostitutes. They have implants so that they move and react according to the desires of their customers. Technically they're just brain-dead. The bodies themselves are actually alive.

Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has the character Reek, who is implied to have been a necrophile. Whether he would take his turn with the corpses before or after his Serial Killer master had skinned them for his own pleasure is not known.

In Bitter Gold Hearts, Garrett must retrieve a murder victim's corpse from a city mortuary before it's cremated. He pays off the crematorium's attendant to let him take it away, knowing that cadaver-selling to this trope's adherents is a regular sideline for the facility's corrupt staff.

In Mika Waltari's The Egyptian (aka Sinuhe the Egyptian), the protagonist has to work with body preparers in the House of Death for some time. He makes notice that most of those permanently in the business employ the occasional female corpse in this way, because the death stench they carry ensures no prostitute will ever touch them, for any price. He also tells that the workers once bought a slave for their needs, but that she became insane because of the place. Some of the workers actually deem necrophilia their duty because of one or two miracles occurrences where a young female corpse woke up during the "procedure" and returned home to live normally. Compare with the Real Life section of this article.

In William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily", the title character murders the man she wishes to marry, then lies next to him (it is implied this was long ago, given the dust on the pillow), the corpse is also said to have been in an embracing position.

Brian Lumley's Necroscope sequence gives us Johnny Found, a necrophile who is also a necromancer. In Lumley's universe, what this boils down to is that whatever he's doing to the corpse, the soul or spirit of the dead person feels it as if they were still alive. It's so bad that despite seeing, fighting and killing some of the foulest abominations ever to walk the cosmos, Harry Keogh "wished he hadn't bothered" to tap the memories of the after-death experience of the latest victim.

Lyra from "The Golden Compass" by Phillip Pullman momentarily kisses her friend Roger after her father killed him to create a bridge to other worlds

Played for Drama in C. M. Eddy & and H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Loved Dead." Extra disturbing in that the protagonist's tendency first manifests itself at his grandfather's funeral. Also includes very short scene that, with a minimum of thought, can be considered extremely squicky.

The dubiously sane narrator of A. C. Swinburne's poem "The Leper" is cohabiting with the dead and rotting body of his beloved.

One of the short stories in Anais Nin's anthology Delta of Venus concerns a young man named Pierre who finds the body of a lovely young woman who has just drowned. Overwhelmed by the beauty and sensuality of the (fresh, still-warm) corpse, he makes passionate love to it then and there.

Jewels in Warbreaker occasionally sleeps with the team's Lifeless, since it was made from the body of her lover, Arsteel.

Rick Koster's 2012 comedic novel Poppin' A Cold One is all about this trope Played for Laughs. The protagonist, a mortician in New Orleans, moves to a Mississippi town to take over a funeral home (in large part to be able to live closer to his girlfriend), and gets mixed up with a criminal ring using the dead bodies of attractive young women sent to the mortuary to be embalmed and prepared for their funerals as subjects for necrophiliac porn movies.

F.M. Busby's short story "Tell Me All About Yourself" postulates "Nec" houses of prostitution made up entirely of carefully preserved dead women. The narrator chooses a young virgin, falls in love with her, and contrives to "rescue" her from the place and give her a decent sendoff.

In mystery novel The Crossing, the central mystery is a rape-murder. It turns out the rape was post-mortem. Towards the end of the story, when Ellis the murderer also kills a couple of porn star prostitutes, he takes pictures and is disappointed because they don't look very dead, thanks to their extensive plastic surgery.

The Criminal Minds episodes "The Last Word" and "Cold Comfort" both feature necrophilic killers. They don't outright state the original killer from "The Angel Maker" was a necrophiliac, but its implied. He apparently beat his victims to death either before or while raping them.

The X-Files episode "Irresistible" features Donnie Pfaster, a necrophiliac with a serious hair and nail fetish. It manages to be one of the creepier episodes, even with a completely mundane villain. Donnie's still highly creepy several years later in "Orison", when he escapes prison and comes after "the one who got away", namely Scully.

In one episode, a woman who'd been in a coma for five years turned out to be pregnant. One of the suspects was a security guard who'd been fired from a funeral home for unclear reasons, though those reasons became a lot more clear when the detectives tracked down a hooker who said the guard had asked her to lie in a tub of ice water before engaging in... relations. After that, it was discovered that the funeral home caught him on camera. The funeral home previously thought he was a grave robber.

One episode had police walk upon what seemed to be a drug rape in the park. The man claimed that he didn't drug her and that he thought she was dead. Fin is understandably extremely disgusted and Rollins has a Flat "What." practically stamped on her face.

This is a strongly implied theme in an episode of the old Friday the 13th: The Series, "Epitaph for a Lonely Soul", in which a mortician obsesses over the pretty dead women he takes care of.

Played with for laughs in an episode of the 1990's TV series One West Waikiki, starring Cheryl Ladd. A bookie is trying to recover a valuable key from the body of his girlfriend (killed in a hit-and-run accident), and sends his henchman to the local morgue to do so. The henchman finds the woman's body (nude except for plastic wrapping), and starts to remove the necklace she's wearing (which holds the key), but knocks over the rack on which the body is stored by accident, and finds himself on the floor, holding the woman's corpse. The series' lead characters enter the room at this point. Hilarity Ensues. (The girlfriend had, just before she herself gotten killed, accidentally shot another girl thst she found her boyfriend two-timing her with; the young woman's body is later shown having literally been hidden in the bookie's refrigerator, though in this case the motive is not necrophilia, but concealing evidence.) At one point, the body is shown to a client as a threat to compel the client to pay his gambling debts.

My Name Is Earl: Patty the Daytime Hooker mentions in "Our Cops Is On" that the reason she has her hand inside a vending machine is because she's getting it nice and cold for a guy who's into dead people (though she was probably just stuck and lying).

Tittybangbang had the characters of Parker and Harris, two pathologists who would frequently stop in the middle of an investigation to have sex with the corpse because, in Parker's words, "I can't resist a stiffy"

Game of Thrones has a scene where Varys and Littlefinger trade rumors as a way of seeing who knows more. Varys makes mention of the various nobles Littlefinger's brothel caters to... including one who has a taste of fresh cadavers.

Varys:(dripping with sarcasm) Must be enormously difficult to accommodate that inclination. The logistics alone... to find beautiful corpses before they rot.

Angel. In "Release" Angel has become his evil alter-ego Angelus, and is about to kill vampire slayer Faith.

American Horror Story: Asylum reveals in the origin story of Dr. Oliver Thredson is that he had an "encounter" with a medical cadaver after seeing it for the first time. All the more disturbing is that he considered it his "mother", thus setting him on the path to become Bloody Face.

In a more depraved account, he "touches" the corpse of Lana's girlfriend Wendy one last time before torching it in his incinerator. He even relays it to Lana before she finally kills him.

Saturday Night Live had a mock commercial for a funeral home, one of the selling points of which was their policy of "Absolutely no sex with dead bodies." The commercial goes into so much detail about how this is enforced it leads one to think the whole funeral home industry is rife with necrophiliacs.

Mr. Show had this as a reveal/punchline in an episode: a man claimed to have seen a monster party in a graveyard. It turned out he was in the graveyard because he was looking for corpses to . . . well, you know.

The Reavers in Firefly do have this comportment according to Zoe Washburn.

"If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And, if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."

In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Peralta recounts how his date with a coroner descended into this. When he describes how she rubbed ice on his lips to make them cold, his co-workers think he's reading into it. He goes on to explain how she fantasised about cracking his chest open, and by the end of it he was role-playing a corpse. Later, she propositions him right after they've performed a real autopsy.

Peralta: Nope, sorry, the spell has worn off. No more weird dead-guy sex for me ever again. It's nothing personal, I just think sex is for the living.

Tig from Sons of Anarchy describes his experiences sleeping with corpses to Clay, who is absolutely disgusted and refuses to hear any more of it.

The premiere episode of Better Call Saul opens with Jimmy doing public defender work, defending three teens who broke into a mortuary and had sex with a severed head. And videoed the deed.

Bates Motel: Norman admits he has sexual attraction to his mother Norma and after she's dead he carries her around and talks to her like she's still alive.

Orange Is the New Black: In season 4 Lolly kills a guard who was trying to strangle Alex to death. As they panic over how to hide the body they hear a phone from the guards pocket. They see its a text from the guy who ordered the hit and he demands a picture of Alex's dead body. Lolly takes a picture of Alex playing dead and they send the guy the photo. The guy then sends a text saying "Show me her titties" which implies he gets aroused from looking at a dead girls boobs. At Lolly's insistence they take a picture of Alex looking dead with her chest bare much to Alex's disgust.

Penny Dreadful: Victor Frankenstein. In one incredibly uncomfortable scene he gropes a dead woman's breasts before he reanimates her. And then he falls in love with and sleeps with her.

Music

Horror punk band The Gravediggers has a song called... well... "I Love the Dead"

There is an entire sub-genre of Filk Songs based on necrophilia humor - not a very large one, but big enough to contribute to filk's peculiar reputation. Notable songs include "Dear Departed" by Bob Kanefsky, "Some Girls..." and "Zombie Wedding" by Seanan McGuire, and "Dead Girl Polka" by Frank Hayes. "Mary O'Meara" doesn't quite count, but it seems to have inspired a few that do.

Nick Cave's "Where the Wild Roses Grow," with Kylie Minogue providing additional vocals. In the song, Cave's character kills Minogue's character to preserve the memory of her beauty forever. In the music video, Cave lusts over and fondles Minogue's corpse.

"Burn Sinister" by Killing Miranda is an interesting example, since it seems to be told from the point of view of the corpse:

I am forever yours, my sweet: romance this rotten meat

Is this stiffness rigor mortis? You'll be with me soon

Smell of formaldehyde and perfume: well, I feel the earth move

Come take me now, my love, among the cerements

Come kiss my ice-blue lips, my cold dead flesh.

Jimmy Cross's "I Want My Baby Back", a parody of Teenage Death Songs, ends with the protagonist digging up his girlfriend's grave and climbing into the coffin with her. What he does then is left fortunately ambiguous.

"Dead Girls Can't Break Up With You," by the Flaming Tsunamis.

While many people think "Mary Jane's Last Dance" is about Marijuana, the music video takes this route.

A Little Piece of Heaven by Avenged Sevenfold involves both necrophilia between a live man and his love interest he murdered, the rising as a zombie of said love interest, the subsequent killing of the man by the woman, and their final marriage by an undead priest.

"Evil" by Mercyful Fate drifts into this trope:

And when you're down

Beyond the ground

I'll dig up your body again

And make love to shame

Witchery's "Dead, Hot & Ready"

Worm Quartet's "I Love You Even More Now That You're Dead."

T.S.O.L.'s "Code Blue". Specifically, the narrator has turned to necrophilia because he "never got along with the girls at my school, filling me up with all their morals and their rules".

I got blood on my hands, and there's no remorse / I got blood on my dick 'cause I fucked a corpse!

"Garasu No Hitsugi De Nemuru Himegimi" from Sound Horizon's Märchen implies that the Blue Prince has a thing for dead girls, both through Märchen's comments on his "peculiar preferences" and the Prince's own comments about how he's tried and failed to love "all the living women." His dismayed reaction to Snow White's revival in the live performances only serves to make the implication stronger.

Tom Lehrerplayed this for laughs, like he always does, with a monologue he would give before performing the song "We Will All Go Together When We Go", mentioning a "heartwarming novel" a purported friend of his had written about "a young necrophiliac who grows up to achieve his boyhood ambition of becoming coroner". This got a couple of chuckles, but his next line brought the house down: "The rest of you can look it up when you get home."

Mythology

In the Aethiopis, the ancient Greek epic that came after Homer's Iliad in the Trojan Cycle, Achilles, after he killed the Amazon queen Penthesilea in single combat, is said to have fallen in love with her as she died. Whether he actually committed necrophilia with her dead body is unknown; several commentators say he did, but many others say that he treated the body with respect, and indeed, the Iliad mentions that he later killed the Greek Thersites who mutilated Penthesilea's corpse. Other versions say he killed Thersites for sneering at the act.

Parthenius of Nicaea tells the story of a certain Dimoetes, who discovered the body of a beautiful woman washed up on the beach by the waves, fell in love with her, and took her home to carry on a love affair with the corpse. When the body decayed, Dimoetes buried it in a magnificent tomb, but was so griefstricken at the loss of his dead lover that he committed suicide. This story may have helped inspire Anais Nin's vignette in Delta of Venus (see Literature above).

Hel in Norse Mythology is blatantly stated to have had intercourse with the body of a dead king. This is clarified to have taken place in the world of the living. She did not have her way with him in Helheim, she did it Midgard.

Tabletop Games

In Vampire: The Requiem, the signature weakness of the Sangiovanni bloodline of vampires is that, not only do they vaguely resemble fresh cadavers themselves, as time goes on, they literally fall in love with corpses in general, and treat them exactly like this, to the point of necrophilia (although technically, both parties are already dead). What makes this even more disturbing is that the Sangiovanni are necromancers, and they can raise said corpses as predatory zombie slaves, which return the affection.Corpse Bride, indeed!

It doesn't help that the bloodline draws their members exclusively from an extremely depraved and inbred Venetian family of faux-Catholics. Strangely enough, they tend to be rather rich and well-educated... in the occult.

To make matters worse, Word of God says that they allied with a legacy of wizards known as the Tremere Liches, a group of mortal necromancers who steal the souls of others to prolong their own lives. It's easy to see why they make such wonderful music together.

By the standards of the World of Darkness, all of this is rather tame.

In the original Vampire: The Masquerade, the Giovanni control the spirits of the dead and one example character has discovered that necrophilia can improve her ability to influence souls while they are enraged by her disrespect.

And, of course, how could we (no matter how hard we try to) forget FATAL and its spell to make the corpse feel alive?

The "Lichloved" feat in The Book of Vile Darkness causes the undead to treat you like an undead creature (in other words, they won't even consider attacking you) and makes it easier for you to command them. The book explicitly states you got to that state through repeated acts of sexual congress with the undead. Also, you start to look like one (judging by a picture of a character with that feat later in the book).

The infamous third-party supplement The Book of Erotic Fantasy makes reference to sex with undead, noting that having sex with intelligent undead (vampires being presented as a prime example) isn't that far off having sex with a living person, but sex with mindless undead is just necrophilia.

Video Games

In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, an NPC in Skingrad mentions that she can't return to her homeland... and then casually asks what the fine for necrophilia is. When you tell her, she reacts with enthusiasm at how lenient the fine is compared with what she's accustomed to.

Various city-dwellers make mention of seeing her near the cemetery with a strange smile on her face.

In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Yngvild, a dungeon on an island northeast of Dawnstar, is home to Arondil The Necromancer, who fled his hometown after the locals discovered his experiments, and was overjoyed to find that the tomb in question was filled with female draugr, who reminded him a little too much of the beautiful women who he lusted after back home. He has recently taken to kidnapping and murdering women so that their ghosts can be enslaved and used as his personal harem.

In Far Cry 3. there's a sidequest called "Faces of Death" in which you take pictures of dead pirates for a man named Nero to show the people of Badtown that there is hope. When you complete the mission, he can't stop proclaiming that they're beautiful and finally says he has to "analyze them in private".

Jason: Somehow I don't think the photos are going up anytime soon...

Some of the 'pissed quotes' from repeatedly clicking on the necromancer unit in Warcraft 3 included "I Love The Dead...frequently" and "Right click for hot undead action".

In F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, the ending actually involves a case of "reverse necrophilia" with Sgt. Becket being sexually assaulted by the technically-dead Alma's corporeal body, glimpses of which he gets flashes of while hallucinating a battle with an apparition of a squadmate gone mad.

In The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, ex-mercenary Athena inmate Jaylor states in no uncertain terms that he intends to do this to Sarah Silverman after first killing her as soon as the prisoner riot starts. Riddick ensures he doesn't.

Two important NPCs in the Dragon Fantasy games are named Harry and Sally. The former became a ghost after a mine caved in, and Sally ends up loving him more than before.

From Drakengard 3, this is one of Dito's more disturbing traits finding the dead absolutely gorgeous. This ends up causing his Face–Heel Turn when Five returns as a zombie and he falls in love with her on the spot.

One of the Red KingMooks in Manhunt 2 practically drools over your corpse should he succeed in killing you.

Thank God I'm a necrophiliac...

Grand Theft Auto IV: Eddie Low describes his number of sexual partners as "Tens or hundreds — depends if dead people count," revealing his necrophiliac tendencies in addition to his status as a Depraved Bisexual.

Alois Racini from Amnesia: The Dark Descent expansion Justine, he is one of the suitors who after getting tortured and blinded by "beautiful" Justine keeps creeping around looking for her, wanting to kill her and keep her dead body with him forever.

Visual Novels

Togainu no Chi: Happens near the beginning where Akira comes upon two people having sex and one of them is not moving...

In Lucky Dog 1, Giulio is revealed to be a necrophiliac in his route which apparently makes his job as a Professional Killer all the more enjoyable once he's finished killing his targets. After spending some time with Gian though, he can eventually decide living human companionship is preferable in the good ending, and presumably stops defiling corpses after bloodshed. In one of his bad endings in the spin-off Gian Carlo's Lucky Happy Life however, he crosses the Moral Event Horizon when he decides the only way he can keep Gian with him (who has just refused his love) is by murdering him and then loving his corpse instead.

Dangan Ronpa 2: In the NISA translation, members of SHSL Despair apparently 'tried to make children with the Ultimate Despair's corpse'.

Webcomics

The trope was played for laughs for a while in the "adult" webcomic Sexy Losers... then a fairy that brings sex dolls to life mistook her for a sex doll and resurrected her, and things started getting really weird.

A lot of the jokes in Sexy Losers revolve around Necrophilia; including one character who's just "following the family tradition", likes to talk pretty girls into suicide, and gets a "dream job" at a mortuary. Oh, and he finds that (WARNING don't read this, it's disgusting!) maggots tickle. (Told ya.)

Also, after Mrs S kills her son's girlfriend by exhaustion, she's shown attending her funeral and stealing her extremely phallic urn, which accidentally opens while she's "using" it. Later, her husband complains of her hoo-ha being gritty. She doesn't have the heart to douche.

In The Order of the Stick, Tsukiko's fascination with death seems to extend to a physical attraction to the undead. Unsurprisingly, she try to hook up with Xykon.

While he is not at all interested in such relationship, she does not give up easily.

Monster in the Darkness: I don't think he [Xykon] has any love to earn. Tsukiko: Sure he does, he just hides it beneath that tough bony exterior. MitD: He doesn't hide anything beneath his bones. I've seen.

She takes it to even more squicky levels later:

Tsukiko: And one night, as we're scribing spells by candlelight, his bony hand will brush against my-

Played with in Something*Positive, when Jason buys Davan a sex doll — which turns out to be a murder victim with a voice chip. The ruse is discovered when her head falls off, though things hadn't gotten very far, as the original purchase was pretty much a gag gift.

Black Mage of 8-Bit Theater once announced that this was his backup plan for the case that his plan to drug White Mage with alcohol (which might not be paint thinner), so he can rape her, fails. To Red Mage, this was the most horrible thing he ever said, and that's saying something.

Somewhat earlier after killing his ordeal (that was a copy of himself), Black Mage suggested that he would turn self-love into an atrocity. While we aren't shown how he does it, Thief wounded up getting blackmail pictures of it.

In Sparklecare, the mortician, Dr. Livings, apparently has a thing for the dead. When our heroes take Barry to meet him, he's seemingly in the middle of doing it with a corpse (thankfully we just get a Shadow Discretion Shot.)

When asked what to stock its harem with, the godly being known as Inglip replied, "THE NONALIVE".

In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, Alicia Dominica is waaay too infatuated with the Emperor, who by then is a rotting corpse. It's questionable whether she realizes how much he has decomposed, though.

Western Animation

Captain Hero of Drawn Togetherreally has a thing for dead bodies. In The Movie, he even carries a girl's corpse around for almost the entire duration of the movie, calling her his girlfriend.

It's also hinted that Quagmire engages in necrophilia; this is shown in such situations as when Death killed Joan (a maid Quagmire was briefly married to though she turned out to be a Yandere) in "I Take Thee Quagmire" and he asked Death if he could leave the body with him "for another 5 minutes", and he is shown jumping out of a coffin half-naked in a DVD-only scene in "Airport '07."

Seen again at the end of "And Then There Were Fewer", when Stephanie's body falls from the trunk of his car.

In the episode "Petarded", Peter accidentally hits Tom Tucker and a prostitute with his car:

Bob: And now, Bart, let's bring the old spark back to our special relationship.

Alluded to in "Lisa the Tree Hugger" when the family is milking the town's belief that Lisa is dead and one of her posthumous requests is for Moe to tear up Homer's tab and then pour cocktail onions down his own pants:

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